You know the drill: Make it hi-res and full-screen, and thank me later.

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The video was created by David Peterson, who also made a similar video called “All Alone at Night”. Some of the clips I’ve seen before, but many are new to me.

At the 29 second mark, I was thrilled to see a glory, a complicated optical phenomenon where light is reflected back from water droplets in the air, creating a circular rainbow beneath the observer. You can see it tracking along with the station as it orbits above the clouds.

The Russian spacecraft docked to the ISS: a Soyuz (left) and Progress (right). You can see the light from the attitude firing on the right of the Progress capsule.

Photo by NASA, from Peterson's video.

At about 1:30, you can see two docked Russian spacecraft (a Soyuz in the foreground and a Progress in the back) with the Earth behind them. To my surprise, you can see the Progress firing its rockets twice, once on each side! The Progress rockets are sometimes used to maintain the ISS attitude (orientation to the Earth) and I had never seen video of them firing before.

[P.S. The music for the video is from the production company “Two Steps From Hell”, which makes music for movie trailers; you’ve probably heard their work many times without even knowing it. I quite enjoy their music, and really like the albums “Invincible” and “Archangel” in particular.]